FFVI: Divergent Paths

Thanks for considering the Stamina idea, even if it’s too much for you to do to change anything in the hack. I think I’d still push to just get rid of the Stamina Esper bonuses, but you do you.

I’m in the world of ruin now, and just got back Cyan. I think your changes to Strago’s motivations were the first time your additions didn’t completely gel with me, but I love the ways you changed Cyan’s storyline- I think it makes much more sense and works more thematically as “Cyan fighting his demons” the way it’s set up now. 

While I like recruiting people to be on the airship, It’s a huge pain to not have “Unequip everyone” on the airship from the start. I don’t mind having to hunt for it, I guess, but I wish it wasn’t Arvis who gave that ability, since Narshe is usually one of the very last places I go in the WoR (you need Locke to unlock the doors and you need at least eight people to find Locke, so it’s a decidedly late game area). I guess I could go there twice, but that fights against everything I believe in in how I tackle the WoR! 

Anyway, all the above is just meaningless rambles: I’m still very much enjoying the hack and I’m starting to think of Celes the Valkyrie and Leo the recruitable Templar as the canon versions of things, which is shocking and high praise as far as I’m concerned. I mostly wanted to respond because I found two bugs (I’m not on the version you just released in the post just above me, but one before).

1) Right outside of the cave in WoR that you use to enter Figaro castle, I fought a weird Pincer attack with only one enemy on my right and none on my left. I have no idea why anything you changed would create a weird pincer attack like this, but it popped up. It didn’t break anything though; I just murdered the fish snake enemy and the battle ended.

2) More importantly, when I traveled to Owzer’s House in the WoR, I ran into the letter that the Impresario is supposed to drop in the original introduction to Setzer. When I read it, it said “he dropped a letter” and then the game softlocked: presumably because I didn’t have Celes (or Locke) in my party. Anyway, I had to reset. The letter’s still on the floor, but I could just walk around it and enter Relm’s dungeon. 

Anyway, I hope either of those bug reports help you! Thanks again for the awesome hack!

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Also, is Doomgaze still in the hack? I can’t seem to find her.